Fada'iyan-e Islam

Fada'iyan-e Islam ("Devotees of Islam") is an Islamic fundamentalist party in Iran, founded in 1946 by Navvab Safavi. The group's goal was to rid Islam of "corrupting individuals" in Iran, killing government officials under the Shahs. The group was responsible for assassinating former Prime Minister Abdolhossein Hazhir in 1949 and sitting Prime Minister Haj Ali Razmara in 1951, among other officials, and the group had powerful clerical supporters due to the secularism that Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi mandated. As a result, it would survive Safavi's execution in 1955, and the group would support the Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in 1979. Afterwards, the group was a political party.